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Scrooge · Beat 53 · permalink

Living room

32:17–32:20 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:1832:18

Play from 32:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 82–82. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, visible from side, holding a white object visible
  • woman with dark hair and light dress, back to camera, near table visible
  • child or small person in light dress, seated at table visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near table, facing group visible
  • woman with dark hair and patterned dress, seated at table visible
Seen
round table [frame:1], white object (possibly cloth or paper) [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], curtains or drapes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal gathering or ritual; themes: social gathering, domestic ritual; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, staged composition

A group of people are gathered around a table in a dimly lit room; one person is holding a white object above the table. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Scrooge (1935) at 32:18 (passage 32:17–32:20); US record: No renewal found

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